INDEX. 



709 



O'Connor, J., gift from . - 65 



Oelrkbs & Co., courtesies by 58 



Oersted's electrical experiments 221 



Ohm, on electro-motive force-.. 223 



Olmsted, Mr., on Zoological Park 28 



Olszewski, chemical researches by. 259,260,263 



Omaha Exposition .. m, 17,35 



Ontonagon copper bowlder 85 



Optics, ocean •- 423 



Organic chemistry, Stokes on 294 



evolution from botanical 



standpoint 80 



Organisms, development of 574 



Origin of man, Haeckel on 461 



Orientalists, congress of - "6 



Orientation among animals, laws of ... 481 



Ostwald, W., cited 515 



Oxford, Smithson tablet at.-. 19 



Oxygen, abundance of 291 



liquefaction of 261 



natural source of... 437 



Pacific coast earthquakes, H olden on .. 81,82 



Pacific Ocean, deep places in 415 



depth of 389 



Paleolithic age, progress in study of . . 624 



reindeer hunters 344 



Paleontology and pithecoid theory — 472 



exhibit of 95 



Palmer, William 66,92 



Panama Railroad Steamship Line, cour- 

 tesies by ' r '8 



Pan-American Exposition, act of Con- 

 gress for _ -. - IjV 



Papago Indians 23. 43 



Parasitism and infection 576 



Parinaud, Dr., cited 179,180 



Paris Exposition, act of Congress on... Lli 



Pasteur's discoveries 577 



Patagonia, explorations in 41 



Peary, R. E., Arctic expedition by 41 



Peckham, Westley, gift from 65 



Peiser, F. E., on Babylonian society 579 



Peltier's electrical experiments 222 



Peraza, N. Bolet, courtesies by. 58 



Periodicals, catalogue of 13,81,83 



Periodic law, discovery of 289,298 



new gases and the. 267 



Perkins, R. E. O, collects Hawaiian in 



sects -- 560 



Permanent committee, report of . xiii 



Perry, Edward & Co , courtesies by ... 58 



Petrie, Flinders, cited. ._ 627 



Petrola, Francis, gift from 66 



Philippine Islands, birds from — t 33 



animals needed 



from 27 



Phillips, P. Lee, in Virginia cartogra- 

 phy 83 



Phillips, W. A., paper by 81 



Phillips, W. Hallett, collection be 



queathed by — 19,32 



Philological researches 44 



Phoenician antiquities in Carthage 602 



Phonophore circuit... 240 



Photographic telescopes 107 



Photographs of moon 105 



stars 107 



Page. 



Photography, color 85,209,214 



Physical chemistry, achievements of .. 290 



mineralogy, exhibit of 96 



Physics, chemistry and 289 



relation of plant physiology to. 433 



Physiological histology _«_ . . 85 



Physiology, energy and 539 



Ludwig and modern.. 85 



of alimentation.. 515,537 



plant study of 427 



Pigeons, sense of direction of. 484 



Filling's bibliography of Indian lan- 

 guages _ 47 



Pithecoid theory, Haeckel on 478 



Pithecometric law, Haeckel on 469 



Pithecanthropus erectus, description of 449 



discovery of. 445 



discussion of. 053 



Dubois on 445-459 



Haeckel on... 469 

 the missing 



link 471 



Plan of the earth and its causes, Greg- 

 ory on 363 



Plant physiology, development of 428 



relation of, to other 



sciences 427 



relation of physics 



and chemistry 433 



Plants and ants, biolcgio relations of. .. 86 

 Platinum group, metals of, bibliog- 

 raphy of 13 



Plato and Aristotle on sphericity of 



earth. 124 



Poisson, electrical researches by 250 



Poitevin process of color photography. 210 



Porto Rico, animals needed from. 27 



Postage, appropriations for 5 



Pottery, aboriginal, Fewkes on 42 



Powell, J. "W _ __.- 1,22,636 



report on Bureau of Eth- 



nologyby 36 



Preece, W. H., experiments with wire- 

 less telegraph 237 



on signaling through 



space without wires.. 249 



Prehistoric animalsof Europe 321.334 



anthropology, exhibit of . 98 



art, study of 625 



man , dogs and 654 



man in Europe 332 



Preston, E. D., quoted 377 



Prestwich, Joseph , biography 86 



Prevost, M., on Le Sage theory 141 



Prichard, J. O, mentioned... 621 



Primi tive man and savages 86 



Pringsheim, E., on specific heat £0 



Pringsheim, Lummer and, memoir by. 12 

 Printing and binding, appropriation 



for XLVITT,5 



Museum, ex- 

 penditures 



for xxxni 



Prinz's torsion wrinkles, Gregory on . . £69 



Prismatic camera, uses of. 173 



Proceedings, Museum, papers in 86 



Protective coloration, law of 84 



